Updating OpenSUSE 11 round 2

I've been hacking on my devbox here at work. I installed the most recent updates, including kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-pae

First issue: Novell login scripts don't work. Someone commented about this in my previous OpenSUSE blog. Verified, it does the same thing to me.

second issue: duplicate icons on desktop. The easiest way to delete the KDE icon is by chmod 700 on kde-thumbs. This will cause the icon to not appear

Third issue: larger PDFs run incredibly slow. Got a suggestion to run Ocular. Its a KDE4 app, and we're a Gnome shop. However, it seems to work pretty well.

I'm using the following repositories for OpenSUSE 11:
openSUSE - OpenOffice.org
KDE:KDE4:STABLE:desktop
VideoLan Repository
openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community
Packman Repository
openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla
server.ltsp
openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Stable
openSUSE BuildService - X11:XGL
openSUSE Education
openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Main Repository (OSS)
Main Repository (NON-OSS)
KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Extra-Apps
NVIDIA Repository
openSUSE:Tools

I'm using easy-ltsp now to build my images. I don't use the prebuilts because I have some custom code. Using the post at http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Localapps I've been able to build nvidia support into my images.

Unfortunately I could not get the updates to work within the build images, so I have to copy updated RPMs manually into the 'extra-packages' folder within LTSP.

Luckily bootsplash has been fixed in recent versions, so has errors on startup. Users now can see the opensuse splash screen all the way upto login.

The last thing I need to do today is test LUM support on the machine. If it works properly, I'll deploy it out to one production box, then to the other!